chubbyalaskagriz
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O, dating woes…
Please permit a brief secret-admirer tale, then at the close I’ll ask YOU a question about your own dating practices!
Would attending a funeral exhibit be considered a freaky/eerie first date? Let me explain…
Those here who know me from other forums recall that I ended an 11 year partnership and became single last winter. Well, several friends have told me enough is enough, and have coerced me into embarking on my first date since the break-up… so, I’ve asked the person they’ve chosen for me- someone who I happen to have been admiring from afar… he appears to be an honorable guy who for all intents and purposes is not only a great catch- but who possesses all kinds of incredible appeal.
I’m a former chef who now works in the basement of the nation’s largest insurance company here in Bloomington. I dig history, art, politics and growing things… and Jorge is the strapping foreman of the summer landscaping crew and leads the teams that tend to the company’s extensive gardens and oasis-spots both indoors and out, at our multiple campuses. I’ve been informed by my well-intentioned friends that Jorge too enjoys history, art, politics, growing things- and remarkably- fine dining! (Definitely right up my alley!) Plus during the slow winter season he moonlights at local florist shops working with flowers for all sorts of functions- which presumably include funerals.
So, Jorge accepted my invite with a lovely smile full of the whitest teeth I’ve ever seen- and here’s the first date I’ve planned… I think it’ll be perfect, but a couple of my friends are grimacing… tell me if you think my plans might be inappropriately eerie or spooky… afterall, one wants to start off on the right foot!
Here in the ‘Land of Lincoln’ a local funeral home chain in conjunction w/ Sanagman State University is hosting a historic exhibit of 18th & 19th century funeral customs: “Now He Belongs to the Ages: A Presentation of Abraham Lincoln’s Life, Death, and Funeral”. There will be extensive Abraham Lincoln memorabilia and artfiacts including a reproduction of his black-draped funeral-train car, and his casket.
So, I will take Jorge to this exhibit… then the plan will be to enjoy a stroll, then a picnic basket of favorite morsels on a hillside in the 19th century section of a lovely nearby cemetery where such notables as U.S.Chief Justice David Davis and U.S. Vice President Adlai Stevenson are laid to rest.
I predict success. But my friends predict disaster of “Adams Family” proportions! What’s YOUR take?
(Please share interesting dates YOU’VE been on! And how did they invlove food?)
Please permit a brief secret-admirer tale, then at the close I’ll ask YOU a question about your own dating practices!
Would attending a funeral exhibit be considered a freaky/eerie first date? Let me explain…
Those here who know me from other forums recall that I ended an 11 year partnership and became single last winter. Well, several friends have told me enough is enough, and have coerced me into embarking on my first date since the break-up… so, I’ve asked the person they’ve chosen for me- someone who I happen to have been admiring from afar… he appears to be an honorable guy who for all intents and purposes is not only a great catch- but who possesses all kinds of incredible appeal.
I’m a former chef who now works in the basement of the nation’s largest insurance company here in Bloomington. I dig history, art, politics and growing things… and Jorge is the strapping foreman of the summer landscaping crew and leads the teams that tend to the company’s extensive gardens and oasis-spots both indoors and out, at our multiple campuses. I’ve been informed by my well-intentioned friends that Jorge too enjoys history, art, politics, growing things- and remarkably- fine dining! (Definitely right up my alley!) Plus during the slow winter season he moonlights at local florist shops working with flowers for all sorts of functions- which presumably include funerals.
So, Jorge accepted my invite with a lovely smile full of the whitest teeth I’ve ever seen- and here’s the first date I’ve planned… I think it’ll be perfect, but a couple of my friends are grimacing… tell me if you think my plans might be inappropriately eerie or spooky… afterall, one wants to start off on the right foot!
Here in the ‘Land of Lincoln’ a local funeral home chain in conjunction w/ Sanagman State University is hosting a historic exhibit of 18th & 19th century funeral customs: “Now He Belongs to the Ages: A Presentation of Abraham Lincoln’s Life, Death, and Funeral”. There will be extensive Abraham Lincoln memorabilia and artfiacts including a reproduction of his black-draped funeral-train car, and his casket.
So, I will take Jorge to this exhibit… then the plan will be to enjoy a stroll, then a picnic basket of favorite morsels on a hillside in the 19th century section of a lovely nearby cemetery where such notables as U.S.Chief Justice David Davis and U.S. Vice President Adlai Stevenson are laid to rest.
I predict success. But my friends predict disaster of “Adams Family” proportions! What’s YOUR take?
(Please share interesting dates YOU’VE been on! And how did they invlove food?)
